John Vine Hall

John Vine Hall (1774–1860) was an English bookseller, known as a religious writer.

Life Hall was born on 14 March 1774 in Diss, Norfolk, where his father had come down in the world. At 11 he was apprenticed to a schoolmaster who taught him the legal lands, then hired him out. In January 1786 he became errand-boy to a bookseller in Maidstone, and rose to be the chief assistant.

In 1801 Hall became clerk and traveller to a Maidstone wine merchant. He drank, and read Constantin Volney's Law of Nature and Tom Paine's The Age of Reason. In 1802 a friend lent him Beilby Porteus's Evidences of Christianity, and his views changed. In February 1804 he bought a bookseller's shop at Worcester, and moved there. In 1812 he became the subject of strong religious convictions.

Vine became an elder in Surrey Chapel, Southwark, where his son was minister.